2 Aug 04, 2009: libarchive 2.7.1 released
4 Jul 20, 2009: Suppress bogus warning about unxz
5 Jul 19, 2009: Support Cygwin 1.7
6 Jun 11, 2009: Support lzma/xz files compressed with larger buffer sizes.
7 May 24, 2009: Handle gzip files signed with OpenBSD "gzsig" program.
8 May 07, 2009: Avoid false failures when reading from pipe.
10 Apr 16, 2009: libarchive 2.7.0 released
12 Apr 10, 2009: libarchive 2.6.992a released
13 Apr 09, 2009: Fix SIGPIPE issue building with MSVC.
14 Apr 09, 2009: Fix several minor memory leaks in libarchive and libarchive_test
16 Apr 08, 2009: libarchive 2.6.991a released
17 Apr 07, 2009: Additional tests added to bsdcpio_test
19 Apr 01, 2009: libarchive 2.6.990a released
20 Apr 01, 2009: Use command-line gunzip, bunzip2, unxz, unlzma for
21 decompression if the library is built without suitable
22 libraries. The setup functions return ARCHIVE_WARN
23 in this case so clients can adapt if necessary.
24 Apr 01, 2009: Use getpw*_r and getgr*_r functions for thread-safety.
25 Mar 24, 2009: Add archive_read_next_header2(), which is up to 25%
26 more efficient for some clients; from Brian Harring.
27 Mar 22, 2009: PDF versions of manpages are now included in the distribution.
28 Mar, 2009: Major work to improve Cygwin build by Charles Wilson.
29 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on cmake build support, mostly by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
30 Feb/Mar, 2009: Major work on Visual Studio support by Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
32 Feb 25, 2009: Fix Debian Bug #516577
33 Feb 21, 2009: Yacc is no longer needed to build; date parser rewritten in C.
34 Jan/Feb, 2009: Mtree work by Michihiro.
35 Feb, 2009: Joliet support by Andreas Henriksson.
36 Jan/Feb, 2009: New options framework by Michihiro.
37 Feb, 2009: High-res timestamps on Tru64, AIX, and GNU Hurd, by Björn Jacke.
38 Jan 18, 2009: Extended attributes work on FreeBSD and Linux now with pax format.
39 Jan 07, 2009: New archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() knows about ACLs,
40 extended attributes, etc so that bsdtar and bsdcpio don't require
41 such system-specific knowledge.
42 Jan 03, 2009: Read filter system extensively refactored. In particular,
43 read filter pipelines are now built out automatically and individual
44 filters should be much easier to implement. Documentation on the
45 Googlecode Wiki explains how to implement new filters.
46 Dec 28, 2008: Many Windows/Visual Studio fixes from Michihiro NAKAJIMA.
48 Dec 28, 2008: Main libarchive development moved from FreeBSD Perforce
49 server to Google Code. This should make it easier for more
50 people to participate in libarchive development.
52 Dec 28, 2008: libarchive 2.6.0 released
53 Dec 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.905a released
54 Dec 10, 2008: libarchive 2.5.904a released
55 Dec 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.903a released
56 Nov 09, 2008: libarchive 2.5.902a released
57 Nov 08, 2008: libarchive 2.5.901a released
58 Nov 08, 2008: Start of pre-release testing for libarchive 2.6
60 Nov 07, 2008: Read filter refactor: The decompression routines just
61 consume and produce arbitrarily-sized blocks. The reblocking
62 from read_support_compression_none() has been pulled into the
63 read core. Also, the decompression bid now makes multiple
64 passes and stacks read filters.
65 Oct 21, 2008: bsdcpio: New command-line parser.
66 Oct 19, 2008: Internal read_ahead change: short reads are now an error
67 Oct 06, 2008: bsdtar: option parser no longer uses getopt_long(),
68 gives consistent option parsing on all platforms.
69 Sep 19, 2008: Jaakko Heinonen: shar utility built on libarchive
70 Sep 17, 2008: Pedro Giffuni: birthtime support
71 Sep 17, 2008: Miklos Vajna: lzma reader and test. Note: I still have
72 some concerns about the auto-detection (LZMA file format
73 doesn't support auto-detection well), so this is not yet
74 enabled under archive_read_support_compression_all(). For
75 now, you must call archive_read_support_compression_lzma() if
76 you want LZMA read support.
77 Sep 11, 2008: Ivailo Petrov: Many fixes to Windows build, new solution files
78 Jul 26, 2008: archive_entry now tracks which values have not been set.
79 This helps zip extraction (file size is often "unknown") and
80 time restores (tar usually doesn't know atime).
81 Jul 26, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Performance improvements to shar writer
82 Jul 25, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: mtree write support
84 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5 released
86 Jul 02, 2008: libarchive 2.5.5b released
87 Jul 01, 2008: bsdcpio is being used by enough people, we can call it 1.0.0 now
88 Jun 20, 2008: bsdcpio: If a -l link fails with EXDEV, copy the file instead
89 Jun 19, 2008: bsdcpio: additional long options for better GNU cpio compat
90 Jun 15, 2008: Many small portability and bugfixes since 2.5.4b.
92 May 25, 2008: libarchive 2.5.4b released
93 May 21, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix bsdtar hardlink handling for newc format
95 May 21, 2008: More progress on Windows building. Thanks to "Scott"
96 for the Windows makefiles, thanks to Kees Zeelenberg for
99 May 21, 2008: Fix a number of non-exploitable integer and buffer overflows,
100 thanks to David Remahl at Apple for pointing these out.
102 May 21, 2008: Colin Percival: SIGINFO or SIGUSR1 to bsdtar prints progress info
104 May 16, 2008: bsdtar's test harness no longer depends on file ordering.
105 This was causing spurious test failures on a lot of systems.
106 Thanks to Bernhard R. Link for the diagnosis.
108 May 14, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: -s substitution support for bsdtar
110 May 13, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: Many mtree improvements
112 May 11, 2008: Joerg Sonnenberger: fix hardlink extraction when
113 hardlinks have different permissions from original file
115 April 30, 2008: Primary libarchive work has been moved into the FreeBSD
116 project's Perforce repository: http://perforce.freebsd.org/
117 The libarchive project can be browsed at
118 //depot/user/kientzle/libarchive-portable
119 Direct link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/46mdgr
121 May 04, 2008: libarchive 2.5.3b released
122 * libarchive: Several fixes to link resolver to address bsdcpio crashes
123 * bsdcpio: -p hardlink handling fixes
124 * tar/pax: Ensure ustar dirnames end in '/'; be more careful about
125 measuring filenames when deciding what pathname fields to use
126 * libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
127 distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
128 * tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
129 * libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test: Better detaults:
130 run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
131 * -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
132 * libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
133 * iso9660: Don't bother trying to find the body of an empty file;
134 this works around strange behavior from some ISO9660 writers
135 * tar: allow -r -T to be used together
136 * tar: allow --format with -r or -u
137 * libarchive: Don't build archive.h
139 May 04, 2008: Simplified building: archive.h is no longer constructed
140 This may require additional #if conditionals on some platforms.
142 Mar 30, 2008: libarchive 2.5.1b released
144 Mar 15, 2008: libarchive 2.5.0b released
145 Mar 15, 2008: bsdcpio now seems to correctly write hardlinks into newc,
146 ustar, and old cpio archives. Just a little more testing before
147 bsdcpio 1.0 becomes a reality.
148 Mar 15, 2008: I think the new linkify() interface is finally handling
149 all known hardlink strategies.
150 Mar 15, 2008: Mtree read fixes from Joerg Sonnenberger.
151 Mar 15, 2008: Many new bsdtar and bsdcpio options from Joerg Sonnenberger.
152 Mar 15, 2008: test harnesses no longer require uudecode; they
153 now have built-in decoding logic that decodes the reference
154 files as they are needed.
156 Mar 14, 2008: libarchive 2.4.14 released; identical to 2.4.13 except for
157 a point fix for gname/uname mixup in pax format that was introduced
158 with the UTF-8 fixes.
160 Feb 26, 2008: libarchive 2.4.13 released
161 Feb 25, 2008: Handle path, linkname, gname, or uname that can't be converted
162 to/from UTF-8. Implement "hdrcharset" attribute from SUS-2008.
163 Feb 25, 2008: Fix name clash on NetBSD.
164 Feb 18, 2008: Fix writing empty 'ar' archives, per Kai Wang
165 Feb 18, 2008: [bsdtar] Permit appending on block devices.
166 Feb 09, 2008: New "linkify" resolver to help with newc hardlink writing;
167 bsdcpio still needs to be converted to use this.
168 Feb 02, 2008: Windows compatibility fixes from Ivailo Petrov, Kees Zeelenberg
169 Jan 30, 2008: Ignore hardlink size for non-POSIX tar archives.
171 Jan 22, 2008: libarchive 2.4.12 released
172 Jan 22, 2008: Fix bad padding when writing symlinks to newc cpio archives.
173 Jan 22, 2008: Verify bsdcpio_test by getting it to work against GNU cpio 2.9.
174 bsdcpio_test complains about missing options (-y and -z), format
175 of informational messages (--version, --help), and a minor formatting
176 issue in odc format output. After this update, bsdcpio_test uncovered
177 several more cosmetic issues in bsdcpio, all now fixed.
178 Jan 22, 2008: Experimental support for self-extracting Zip archives.
179 Jan 22, 2008: Extend hardlink restore strategy to work correctly with
180 hardlinks extracted from newc cpio files. (Which store the body
181 only with the last occurrence of a link.)
183 Dec 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.11 released
184 Dec 30, 2007: Fixed a compile error in bsdcpio on some systems.
186 Dec 29, 2007: libarchive 2.4.10 released
187 Dec 29, 2007: bsdcpio 0.9.0 is ready for wider use.
188 Dec 29, 2007: Completed initial test harness for bsdcpio.
190 Dec 22, 2007: libarchive 2.4.9 released
191 Dec 22, 2007: Implement the remaining options for bsdcpio: -a, -q, -L, -f,
192 pattern selection for -i and -it.
194 Dec 13, 2007: libarchive 2.4.8 released
195 Dec 13, 2007: gzip and bzip2 compression now handle zero-byte writes correctly,
196 Thanks to Damien Golding for bringing this to my attention.
198 Dec 12, 2007: libarchive 2.4.7 released
200 Dec 10, 2007: libarchive 2.4.6 released
201 Dec 09, 2007: tar/test/test_copy.c verifies "tar -c | tar -x" copy pipeline
202 Dec 07, 2007: Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
204 Dec 04, 2007: libarchive 2.4.5 released
205 Dec 04, 2007: Fix cpio/test/test_write_odc by setting the umask first.
207 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.4 released
208 Dec 03, 2007: New configure options --disable-xattr and --disable-acl,
209 thanks to Samuli Suominen.
211 Dec 03, 2007: libarchive 2.4.3 released
212 Dec 03, 2007: Thanks to Lapo Luchini for sending me a ZIP file that
213 libarchive couldn't handle. Fixed a bug in handling of
214 "length at end" flags in ZIP files.
215 Dec 03, 2007: Fixed bsdcpio -help, bsdtar -help tests.
216 Dec 02, 2007: First cut at real bsdtar test harness.
218 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.2 released
220 Dec 02, 2007: libarchive 2.4.1 released
221 Dec 02, 2007: Minor fixes, rough cut of mdoc-to-man conversion for
224 Oct 30, 2007: libarchive 2.4.0 released
225 Oct 30, 2007: Minor compile fix thanks to Joerg Schilling.
226 Oct 30, 2007: Only run the format auction once at the beginning of the
227 archive. This is simpler and supports better error recovery.
228 Oct 29, 2007: Test support for very large entries in tar archives:
229 libarchive_test now exercises entries from 2GB up to 1TB.
231 Oct 27, 2007: libarchive 2.3.5 released
232 Oct 27, 2007: Correct some unnecessary internal data copying in the
233 "compression none" reader and writer; this reduces user time
234 by up to 2/3 in some tests. (Thanks to Jan Psota for
235 publishing his performance test results to GNU tar's bug-tar
236 mailing list; those results pointed me towards this problem.)
237 Oct 27, 2007: Fix for skipping archive entries that are exactly
238 a multiple of 4G on 32-bit platforms.
239 Oct 25, 2007: Fix for reading very large (>8G) tar archives; this was
240 broken when I put in support for new GNU tar sparse formats.
241 Oct 20, 2007: Initial work on new pattern-matching code for cpio; I
242 hope this eventually replaces the code currently in bsdtar.
244 Oct 08, 2007: libarchive 2.3.4 released
245 Oct 05, 2007: Continuing work on bsdcpio test suite.
246 Oct 05, 2007: New cpio.5 manpage, updates to "History" of bsdcpio.1 and
248 Oct 05, 2007: Fix zip reader to immediately return EOF if you try
249 to read body of non-regular file. In particular, this fixes
250 bsdtar extraction of zip archives.
252 Sep 30, 2007: libarchive 2.3.3 released
253 Sep 26, 2007: Rework Makefile.am so that the enable/disable options
254 actually do the right things.
255 Sep 26, 2007: cpio-odc and cpio-newc archives no longer write bodies
256 for non-regular files.
257 Sep 26, 2007: Test harness for bsdcpio is in place, needs more tests written.
258 This is much nicer than the ragtag collection of test scripts
261 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.2 released
262 Sep 20, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 broke bsdtar because the archive_write_data()
263 fix was implemented incorrectly.
265 Sep 16, 2007: libarchive 2.3.1 released
266 Sep 16, 2007: Many fixes to bsdcpio 0.3: handle hardlinks with -p, recognize
267 block size on writing, fix a couple of segfaults.
268 Sep 16, 2007: Fixed return value from archive_write_data() when used
269 with archive_write_disk() to match the documentation and other
270 instances of this same function.
271 Sep 15, 2007: Add archive_entry_link_resolver, archive_entry_strmode
273 Sep 11, 2007: libarchive 2.2.8 released
274 Sep 09, 2007: bsdcpio 0.2 supports most (not yet all) of the old POSIX spec.
276 Sep 01, 2007: libarchive 2.2.7 released
277 Aug 31, 2007: Support for reading mtree files, including an mtree.5 manpage
278 (A little experimental still.)
279 Aug 18, 2007: Read gtar 1.17 --posix --sparse entries.
280 Aug 13, 2007: Refined suid/sgid restore handling; it is no longer
281 an error if suid/sgid bits are dropped when you request
282 perm restore but don't request owner restore.
283 Aug 06, 2007: Use --enable-bsdcpio if you want to try bsdcpio
285 Aug 05, 2007: libarchive 2.2.6 released
286 Aug 05, 2007: New configure option --disable-bsdtar, thanks to Joerg
288 Aug 05, 2007: Several bug fixes from FreeBSD CVS repo.
290 Jul 13, 2007: libarchive 2.2.5 released
292 Jul 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.4 released
293 Jul 12, 2007: Thanks to Colin Percival's help in diagnosing and
294 fixing several critical security bugs. Details available at
295 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc
297 May 26, 2007: libarchive 2.2.3 released
298 May 26, 2007: Fix memory leaks in ZIP reader and shar writer, add some
299 missing system headers to archive_entry.h, dead code cleanup
300 from Colin Percival, more tests for gzip/bzip2, fix an
301 EOF anomaly in bzip2 decompression.
303 May 12, 2007: libarchive 2.2.2 released
304 May 12, 2007: Fix archive_write_disk permission restore by cloning
305 entry passed into write_header so that permission info is
306 still available at finish_entry time. (archive_read_extract()
307 worked okay because it held onto the passed-in entry, but
308 direct consumers of archive_write_disk would break). This
309 required fixing archive_entry_clone(), which now works and has
310 a reasonably complete test case.
311 May 10, 2007: Skeletal cpio implementation.
313 May 06, 2007: libarchive 2.2.1 released
314 May 06, 2007: Flesh out a lot more of test_entry.c so as to catch
315 problems such as the device node breakage before releasing <sigh>.
316 May 05, 2007: Fix a bad bug introduced in 2.1.9 that broke device
317 node entries in tar archives.
318 May 03, 2007: Move 'struct stat' out of archive_entry core as well.
319 This removes some portability headaches and fixes a bunch
320 of corner cases that arise when manipulating archives on
323 Apr 30, 2007: libarchive 2.1.10 released
324 Apr 31, 2007: Minor code cleanup.
326 Apr 24, 2007: libarchive 2.1.9 released
327 Apr 24, 2007: Fix some recently-introduced problems with libraries
328 (Just let automake handle it and it all works much better.)
329 Finish isolating major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry.c.
331 Apr 23, 2007: libarchive 2.1.8 released
332 Apr 23, 2007: Minor fixes found from building on MacOS X
334 Apr 22, 2007: libarchive 2.1.7 released
335 Apr 22, 2007: Eliminated all uses of 'struct stat' from the
336 format readers/writers. This should improve portability;
337 'struct stat' is now only used in archive_entry and in
338 code that actually touches the disk.
340 Apr 17, 2007: libarchive 2.1.6 released
341 Libarchive now compiles and passes all tests on Interix.
343 Apr 16, 2007: libarchive 2.1.5 released
345 Apr 15, 2007: libarchive 2.1b2 released
346 Apr 15, 2007: New libarchive_internals.3 documentation of internal APIs.
347 Not complete, but should prove helpful.
348 Apr 15, 2007: Experimental "read_compress_program" and "write_compress_program"
349 for using libarchive with external compression. Not yet
350 well tested, and likely has portability issues. Feedback
353 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.31 released
354 Apr 14, 2007: More fixes for Interix, more 'ar' work
356 Apr 14, 2007: libarchive 2.0.30 released
357 Apr 13, 2007: libarchive now enforces trailing '/' on dirs
358 written to tar archives
360 Apr 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.29 released
361 Apr 11, 2007: Make it easier to statically configure for different platforms.
362 Apr 11, 2007: Updated config.guess, config.sub, libtool
364 Apr 06, 2007: libarchive 2.0.28 released
365 Apr 06, 2007: 'ar' format read/write support thanks to Kai Wang.
367 Apr 01, 2007: libarchive 2.0.27 released
368 Mar 31, 2007: Several minor fixes from Colin Percival and Joerg Sonnenberger.
370 Mar 12, 2007: libarchive 2.0.25 released
371 Mar 12, 2007: Fix broken --unlink flag.
373 Mar 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0.24 released
374 Mar 10, 2007: Correct an ACL blunder that causes any ACL with an entry
375 that refers to a non-existent user or group to not be restored correctly.
376 The fix both makes the parser more tolerant (so that archives created
377 with the buggy ACLs can be read now) and corrects the ACL formatter.
378 Mar 10, 2007: More work on test portability to Linux.
380 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive 2.0.22 released
381 Mar 10, 2007: Header cleanups; added linux/fs.h, removed
382 some unnecessary headers, added #include guards in bsdtar.
383 If you see any obvious compile failures from this, let me know.
384 Mar 10, 2007: Work on bsdtar test scripts: not yet robust enough
385 to enable as part of "make check", but getting better.
386 Mar 10, 2007: libarchive now returns ARCHIVE_FAILED when
387 a header write fails in a way that only affects this item.
388 Less bad than ARCHIVE_FATAL, but worse than ARCHIVE_WARN.
390 Mar 07, 2007: libarchive 2.0.21 released
391 Mar 07, 2007: Add some ACL tests (only for the system-independent
392 portion of the ACL support for now).
393 Mar 07, 2007: tar's ability to read ACLs off disk got
394 turned off for FreeBSD; re-enable it. (ACL restores and
395 libarchive support for storing/reading ACLs from pax
396 archives was unaffected.)
398 Mar 02, 2007: libarchive 2.0.20 released
399 Mar 2, 2007: It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
400 Libarchive 2.0 is officially out of beta.
402 Feb 28, 2007: libarchive 2.0b17 released
403 Feb 27, 2007: Make the GID restore checks more robust by checking
404 whether the current user has too few or too many privileges.
406 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b15 released
407 Feb 26, 2007: Don't lose symlinks when extracting from ISOs.
408 Thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò for telling me about the
409 broken testcase on Gentoo that (finally!) led me to the cause
410 of this long-standing bug.
412 Feb 26, 2007: libarchive 2.0b14 released
413 Feb 26, 2007: Fix a broken test on platforms that lack lchmod().
415 Feb 25, 2007: libarchive 2.0b13 released
416 Feb 25, 2007: Empty archives were being written as empty files,
417 without a proper end-of-archive marker. Fixed.
419 Feb 23, 2007: libarchive 2.0b12 released
420 Feb 22, 2007: Basic security checks added: _EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT
421 and _EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINK. These checks used to be in bsdtar,
422 but they belong down in libarchive where they can be used by
423 other tools and where they can be better optimized.
425 Feb 11, 2007: libarchive 2.0b11 released
426 Feb 10, 2007: Fixed a bunch of errors in libarchive's handling
427 of EXTRACT_PERM and EXTRACT_OWNER, especially relating
428 to SUID and SGID bits.
430 Jan 31, 2007: libarchive 2.0b9 released
431 Jan 31, 2007: Added read support for "empty" archives as a
432 distinct archive format. Bsdtar uses this to handle, e.g.,
433 "touch foo.tar; tar -rf foo.tar"
435 Jan 22, 2007: libarchive 2.0b6 released
436 Jan 22, 2007: archive_write_disk API is now in place. It provides
437 a finer-grained interface than archive_read_extract. In particular,
438 you can use it to create objects on disk without having an archive
439 around (just feed it archive_entry objects describing what you
440 want to create), you can override the uname/gname-to-uid/gid lookups
441 (minitar uses this to avoid getpwXXX() and getgrXXX() bloat).
443 Jan 09, 2007: libarchive 2.0a3 released
444 Jan 9, 2007: archive_extract is now much better; it handles the
445 most common cases with a minimal number of system calls.
446 Some features still need a lot of testing, especially corner
447 cases involving objects that already exist on disk. I expect
448 the next round of API overhaul will simplify building test cases.
449 Jan 9, 2007: a number of fixes thanks to Colin Percival, especially
450 corrections to the skip() framework and handling of large files.
451 Jan 9, 2007: Fixes for large ISOs. The code should correctly handle
452 very large ISOs with entries up to 4G. Thanks to Robert Sciuk
453 for pointing out these issues.
455 Sep 05, 2006: libarchive 1.3.1 released
456 Sep 5, 2006: Bump version to 1.3 for new I/O wrappers.
457 Sep 4, 2006: New memory and FILE read/write wrappers.
458 Sep 4, 2006: libarchive test harness is now minimally functional;
459 it's located a few minor bugs in error-handling logic
461 Aug 17, 2006: libarchive 1.2.54 released
462 Aug 17, 2006: Outline ABI changes for libarchive 2.0; these
463 are protected behind #ifdef's until I think I've found everything
464 that needs to change.
465 Aug 17, 2006: Fix error-handling in archive_read/write_close()
466 They weren't returning any errors before.
467 Aug 17, 2006: Fix recursive-add logic to not trigger if it's not set
468 Fixes a bug adding files when writing archive to pipe or when
469 using archive_write_open() directly.
470 Jul 2006: New "skip" handling improves performance extracting
471 single files from large uncompressed archives.
473 Mar 21, 2006: 1.2.52 released
474 Mar 21, 2006: Fix -p on platforms that don't have platform-specific
475 extended attribute code.
476 Mar 20, 2006: Add NEWS file; fill in some older history from other
477 files. I'll try to keep this file up-to-date from now on.
481 Mar 19, 2006: libarchive 1.2.51 released
482 Mar 18, 2006: Many fixes to extended attribute support, including a redesign
483 of the storage format to simplify debugging.
484 Mar 12, 2006: Remove 'tp' support; it was a fun idea, but not worth
485 spending much time on.
486 Mar 11, 2006: Incorporated Jaakko Heinonen's still-experimental support
487 for extended attributes (Currently Linux-only.).
488 Mar 11, 2006: Reorganized distribution package: There is now one tar.gz
489 file that builds both libarchive and bsdtar.
490 Feb 13, 2006: Minor bug fixes: correctly read cpio device entries, write
491 Pax attribute entry names.
492 Nov 7, 2005: Experimental 'tp' format support in libarchive. Feedback
493 appreciated; this is not enabled by archive_read_support_format_all()
494 yet as I'm not quite content with the format detection heuristics.
495 Nov 7, 2005: Some more portability improvements thanks to Darin Broady,
497 Oct 12, 2005: Use GNU libtool to build shared libraries on many systems.
498 Aug 9, 2005: Correctly detect that MacOS X does not have POSIX ACLs.
499 Apr 17, 2005: Kees Zeelenberg has ported libarchive and bsdtar to Windows:
500 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
501 Apr 11, 2005: Extended Zip/Zip64 support thanks to Dan Nelson. -L/-h
502 fix from Jaakko Heinonen.
503 Mar 12, 2005: archive_read_extract can now handle very long
504 pathnames (I've tested with pathnames up to 1MB).
505 Mar 12, 2005: Marcus Geiger has written an article about libarchive
506 http://xsnil.antbear.org/2005/02/05/archive-mit-libarchive-verarbeiten/
507 including examples of using it from Objective-C. His MoinX
508 http://moinx.antbear.org/ desktop Wiki uses
509 libarchive for archiving and restoring Wiki pages.
510 Jan 22, 2005: Preliminary ZIP extraction support,
511 new directory-walking code for bsdtar.
512 Jan 16, 2005: ISO9660 extraction code added; manpage corrections.
513 May 22, 2004: Many gtar-compatible long options have been added; almost
514 all FreeBSD ports extract correctly with bsdtar.
515 May 18, 2004: bsdtar can read Solaris, HP-UX, Unixware, star, gtar,